DAQMAN PLUNDERS 126 POINTS PROFIT: Equality? Not on your betting life! Daqman yesterday romped clear of Pricewise 36-16 on winners this Flat season, with two straight strikes at Sandown yesterday at 7-1 and 5-1, and a third winner there with Paddington in the Eclipse. All three were special bets; profit on the day: 126.94
WON 7-1 EQUALITY (win-50 bull’s-eye bet); pays 50
WON 5-1 PEROTTO (Fortune Cookie); pays 100
WON 8-11 PADDINGTON (Fortune Cookie Eclipse 1-2); pays 14.54
MORE TOP INFORMATION NEXT WEEK: How good was Paddington? What’s next? Where to with Westover? Is Emily Upjohn an Arc winner? Read Daqman’s wrap for the weekend, and his revised Fortune Cookies, tomorrow and Tuesday.
CHALDEAN CAN BEAT THE FRENCH
⭕ 2.50 Deauville (Prix Jean Prat, 7f) Daqman’s horse-by-horse form guide.
Belbek Won the Lagardere 2yo championship but was unable to get a clear run at Longchamp the last day behind Breizh Sky and Good Guess. Breizh Sky, a keen-goer, was third in the French Guineas (Good Guess missed the break).
Chaldean Isaac Shelby suggests the French three-year-old colts are inferior; short-neck second in the French Guineas, he was only fourth to Paddington in the St James’s Palace Stakes, with Chaldean second and Charyn third.
Supplemented for this, Chaldean beat Indestructible in the Champagne Stakes (7f, soft) at Doncaster in the autumn, and it was soft when he won the Newmarket Guineas.
Charyn had a rough race when well behind Chaldean in the Newmarket 2,000 and then, short of room at the Curragh, could turn around the half-length Hi Royal beat him by when they were third and fourth in the Irish version.
Hi Royal was beaten in his prep race on soft and was hanging in similar ground when Chaldean went by at Newmarket.
In fact, Hi Royal has to emerge from the shadows of the two Guineas winners, having been third behind Paddington at the Curragh.
Paddington has left them standing since Newmarket, beating Chaldean at Royal Ascot, and yesterday stopping the British Champion (fillies and mares), Emily Upjohn, in a superb battle for the Eclipse.
The thinking today among connections is that Chaldean, who had to hang on grimly in the English 2,000, Hi Royal as leader there until headed final furlong, and Charyn can redeem themselves, dropped back to today’s 7f.
Meditate Aidan O’Brien has the same idea about Meditate, his Irish 1,000 Guineas runner-up to Tahiyra, then even further behind the same filly at Royal Ascot.
Meditate cut out much of the pace in both races but has never won on soft and it would be unusual for a firm-ground Breeders Cup winner to do so at Group/Grade 1 level.
Indestructible (Karl Burke) and Shouldvebeenaring (Richard Hannon) are also having a crack at prizemoney which goes beyond the usual places.
DAQMAN VERDICT: A hot bunch of pace-setters drawn high, with Chaldean set to emerge and hold them off at a trip shorter than his Guineas, and Belbek likely to be staying on at BETDAQ 13.5 this morning.
CHARMLESS
⭕ 2.45 Chelmsford I wouldn’t be at the front of the queue to back the William Haggas trained Eastern Charm despite her sexy form figures and her bolting home by six lengths in a weak classified event at Yarmouth last time out.
She hasn’t shown much on the all-weather so far and preference at the prices is for Coloane whose all-weather form is pretty solid by comparison.
SIX OF THE BEST FOR SPARKY
⭕ 4.50 Ayr Without doubt the best race on a modest days racing at Ayr and Sparks Fly can make it a prolific six wins in a row.
It’s an increasingly rare site to see a horse build up such a sequence as it usually means egg on the face of the handicapper but there’s every chance that David Loughnane’s super tough filly isn’t finished yet.
She again gets the cut in the ground she seems to relish and has been a transformed character since switching to the turf where she is unbeaten since winning off a mark of 59 at Windsor back in April.
She’s up 34lb since then but remarkably still appeared to have something up her sleeve when winning at Chester last time out beating the Royal owned previous winner Market Value fair and square.
She goes well well for Laura Pearson and the partnership can strike again.
KEEP THE SPIRIT
⭕ 5.25 Ayr A tricky finale in which Rory The Cat was heading the morning Betdaq Betting Exchange market after his Beverley win last out but a 4lb hike for a half length win makes me want to look elsewhere.
Braes Of Doune looks the pick of the Jim Goldie trained pair but his best form has come on either quicker ground than today or on the all-weather.
Zakram is of some interest with first time pieces but the stable form 1-44 is deeply worrying.
I’ll take a chance with the filly Spirit Of Ash who seems to have improved since her change of stable.
She followed up her win at Newcastle with a solid run at Musselburgh last time out and a repetition of that effort might be all that’s required.
DAQMAN’S BETS
2.45 Chelmsford (win 10)
BET 4pts win COLOANE
2.50 Deauville
BET 20pts win CHALDEAN
BET (to win 15) 1pt win and place BELBEK
4.50 Ayr (win 10, nap)
BET 4.2pts win SPARKS FLY
5.25 Ayr (win 10)
BET 2.5pts win SPIRIT OF ASH
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